related works
Unfinished Earth : Symphony Nº 3 for large orchestra / Douglas Knehans
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
picc 2fl 2ob eh 2cl cl-b 2fg cfg 4h 4tpt 2trb-t trb-b tb timp 3perc pf hp str
Oh oor o hoor : vijf gedichten van Lucebert voor bas-bariton en orkest, 1987 / Theo Loevendie
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
bas-bar 3333 4220 3perc cel hp str
Kleine ouverture : voor sopraan en orkest, op. 14 / Marius Flothuis
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
sopr 2233 3331 timp perc cel vibr hp str
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
sopr 2322 4330 timp perc cel hp str
composition
Cloud Ossuary : Symphony Nº 4 for soprano and orchestra / Douglas Knehans; words by Katarina Knehans
Other authors:
Knehans, Katarina
(Text writer/Librettist)
Knehans, Douglas
(Composer)
Description:
Cloud Ossuary began as a setting of my daughter’s riveting and poignant poem Bones and All. When I first read this work, I was seized with an immediate desire to set it to music. So, almost as immediately I did indeed get to work on it.
The Ossein Cage, composed after the two movements that follow it, uses the same harmonic architecture as both subsequent movements, while Breathe Clouded is actually an inverted and compressed version of Bones and All. Thus, the whole of Cloud Ossuary sits as three different guises of the same material and structural approach, though with clear and dramatically different surfaces.
Douglas Knehans